Occupy Oakland will go down as one of the most controversial populist movements in history. One of Occupy’s first acts, before it even officially became a thing, was to unofficially rename Oakland’s Frank Ogawa Plaza after Oscar Grant, the 22 year-old Hayward resident killed by a BART cop two years earlier. While the renaming was intended to show solidarity with the social justice, police accountability, and racial equality activists who had protested Grant’s death and shooter Johannes Mehserle’s legal proceedings for some 21 months, organizers neglected to get the blessing of the Grant family. Some people of color found the tribute condescending – a foreshadowing of the deep division which was to take place among POC activists and Occupiers.